Kwaymullina, Ambelin

The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.

"Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in grief. He's also the only one who has been able to see and hear her since the accident. But now she's got a mystery to solve, a mystery that will hopefully remind her detective father that he is still alive, that there is a life after Beth that is still worth living. Who is Isobel Catching, and why is she able to see Beth, too? What is her connection to the crime Beth's father has been sent to investigate, a gruesome fire at a home for troubled youth that left an unidentifiable body behind? What happened to the people who haven't been seen since the fire? As Beth and her father unravel the mystery, they find a shocking and heartbreaking story lurking beneath the surface of a small town, and a friendship that lasts beyond one life and into another"--OCLC.

"Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in grief. He's also the only one who has been able to see and hear her since the accident. But now she's got a mystery to solve, a mystery that will hopefully remind her detective father that he is still alive, that there is a life after Beth that is still worth living. Who is Isobel Catching, and why is she able to see Beth, too? What is her connection to the crime Beth's father has been sent to investigate, a gruesome fire at a home for troubled youth that left an unidentifiable body behind? What happened to the people who haven't been seen since the fire? As Beth and her father unravel the mystery, they find a shocking and heartbreaking story lurking beneath the surface of a small town, and a friendship that lasts beyond one life and into another"--OCLC.

In a futuristic world, sixteen-year-old Ashala has been captured by those bent on destroying her tribe--the runaway illegals hiding in the Firstwood. Now injured and her Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala must face interrogation and try to protect the secrets about the illegals she carries in her mind.

"Georgie Spider foresees the future and the end of the world. She sees that Ashala is only person who can prevent it. But then she sees Ashala's death. As the girls deal with threats from others, Georgie must try to prevent harm from coming to Ashala. The future depends on it."--OCLC.

Ashala Wolf and her friends, who all hold unexplainable powers, have found safety in the Firstwood. But when Ashala learns that Ember has gone missing, she will risk it all to bring Ember back to Firstwood and the Tribe.

They?re known as Firestarters. Boomers. Skychangers. The government calls them Illegals ? children with inexplicable abilities ? and detains them in menacing facilities so that society is kept out of harm?s way. Ashala Wolf and her Tribe of fellow Illegals have taken refuge in the Firstwood, a forest eerily conscious of its inhabitants, where they do their best to survive and where they are free to practice their abilities. But when Ashala is compelled to venture outside her territory, she is betrayed by a friend and captured by an enemy. Injured and vulnerable, with her own Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala is forced to succumb to a machine that will pull secrets from her mind.